Setting up and running your own smallholding can turn dreams of self-sufficiency into reality

Twenty years ago Jules and Simon Moore were Army officers and never imagined
that two decades on they would be producing their own meat, vegetables and
eggs.

The couple took over a smallholding “by chance” in 2001, after they were
offered ten acres next to the house that they were buying at Thornbury, near
Bristol.

Now they spend their time tending their plot and passing on their farming
skills to others, and there are plenty of people keen to follow their lead.
What once was seen as a radical lifestyle choice is attracting an increasing
number of devotees as interest